Inkygirl comics and Tom Swifties

I've been gradually accumulated my writing-related comics (not including Will Write For Chocolate), posted to Inkygirl. Here's a thumbnail summary, for those interested:













































































I've also been getting more inquiries about using these cartoons, either on sites or newsletters, so finally decided to put together a policy on re-posting and other use of my images. These are specific to my Inkygirl comics, but I'll be coming up with similar pages for my other illustrations and comics. Most people seem to be careful about copyright use, but I've noticed a growing number of people re-posting copyrighted comics in their blogs and I suspect that not all were posted with permission of the artist or publisher.

Of course, there's a marked difference between occasionally posting someone's else comic without permission in your personal blog and posting it on a for-profit site. When someone asks me for permission to use one of my Inkygirl cartoons, I very rarely say no unless it's for something commercial or if they plan to do this frequently (in which we work out a licensing fee). Still, I appreciate being asked in advance.

In my last post, I asked you about your favourite childhood book series. Wow, thanks for all your replies! I was reminded of many series I'd forgotten about and now am going to have seek out again, like Danny Dunn, Homer Price, Anne of Green Gables, The Bobbsey Twins, Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazon series, Little House books, Five Little Peppers, Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain, Narnia books, The Borrowers, Beverly Cleary's Ramona series, Encylopedia Brown, Paddington Bear, among others. Bill Roper reminded me of The Enormous Egg, which I just unpacked. I found out about all kinds of other series which I'm now curious about.

Like Tom Swift! Never did read a Tom Swift, and I was shocked to discover from Walter that "Tom Swifties" weren't actually used in the Tom Swift books. Also found out from W. that the TASER, a hand-held projectile electroshock stun gun used by police, is an abbreviation of Tom A. Swift Electric Rifle. Apparently Jack Cover, who developed the original TASER, was a Tom Swift fan. Go figure.

And Alan T. and Phil P. helpfully volunteered some Tom Swifties. My favourites:

"The prisoner escaped by climbing down a rope ladder," said Tom, condescendingly. (Alan T.)

"I dropped the toothpaste!" said Tom, crestfallen. (Alan T.)

"I've created a variable X whose value is preserved from one invocation of the procedure to the next!" Tom declared ecstatically. (Phil P.)

:-D


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